New Netbook Range from Samsung

Samsung has just launched a stylish new range of netbooks, the NF series. While showing them off at the IFA tech expo and conference in Berlin, Samsung UK representatives stated that the Korean electronics giant plans to launch a model equipped with built-in 4G mobile broadband support based on the next generation LTE standard, before the end of the year. LTE, or Long Term Evolutions, networks should be significantly faster than the current 3G networks.

Although our sources weren't willing to commit on this netbook's other technical specifications, such as whether it would stick with an Intel Atom processor or switch to AMD's new Fusion chip, they do reveal that this 4G LTE netbook will have two SIM card slots, one for 4G and another for compatibility with existing 3G networks.

However, although O2 has carried out LTE trials in the UK, with 3 Ireland experimenting with rival technologies, and LTE service is currently active in some American and Scandinavian cities, no mobile operators have yet announced a LTE based network. It is therefore possible Samsung's LTE netbook will launch first in other countries before making it to here.

The 4G netbook will, externally, most likely resemble the stylishly curvy NF models just announced, with a high resolution 1,366x768 screen, Bluetooth 3.0 and 2GB or Ram. Although it's likely to cost more than we've come to expect from a notebook, this wouldn't be surprising given the integration of a LTE modem.

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